No Bake Candy Cane Playdough Making, instead of buying, homemade playdough gives you the chance to infuse it with a wide variety of colors and scents. Not to mention the ingredients in homemade playdough are much safer than what can typically be bought in the store. Microwave Peppermint Playdough This Microwave Peppermint Playdough is a fun and festive treat for the holidays that your kids will love! You can also make this on the stovetop but I...
There's nothing quite like the month of December. The anticipation of all that the season brings, including the presents, gorgeous trees, and delicious gingerbread cookies. Yet, all of this is possible because of the one we adore and celebrate -- Jesus! Speaking about this wonderful time of year, let's get to our Preschool themes for December: Christmas, Gingerbread, Christmas Trees, Candy Canes, and of course, Jesus! Christmas Trees Activity Mats Don't you just love the...
Learning about the symbols of Christmas is fun and exciting for children of all ages. Students might wonder why we use certain colors, shapes, or decorations around the holidays. Planning a Symbols of Christmas unit in your preschool classroom is a fantastic theme that will add some holiday fun to your lessons. We have some great fine motor worksheets to help with your learning centers. This set includes nine different Christmas symbols for...
Pom-Pom Activity Mats If you have a preschool student, working on fine motor skills is important for developing the necessary small motor muscles students will need in the coming years. There are many ways to work on building fine motor control and this set of Christmas pom-pom activity mats is sure to help! Christmas Baking Activity Mats We've put together some free Christmas activity mats that will challenge your little ones! Each page features colored dots for...
With winter around the corner, you'll want to stock your preschool classroom with fun, thematic activities for your students. We've got hundreds of free winter preschool printables available on our website. From arctic animals to Christmas activities and games, to nutcrackers, snowflakes and now snowmen! Snowman Tracing Worksheets But these aren't just any snowmen! These snowmen come in all sorts of shapes and sizes! Our free snowman tracing worksheets are great for...
Free Printable Winter Math Games Learning one-to-one counting is an important math skill your preschooler can learn. It's important not only to be able to count on fingers but to be able to count objects and to recognize that written numbers represent a set amount of objects. This free printable Marshmallow Counting game is a fun way to work on counting skills while adding some hands-on fun! Don't worry, if you're not keen on providing...
Gingerbread Playdough Sensory Activities One of my favorite holiday scents is that of fresh gingerbread baking in the oven and luckily there is more than one way to enjoy it! Whipping up a batch of Gingerbread Playdough makes the whole house smell great and gives the kids hours of fun and holiday play. Far easier than baking homemade cookies, it takes only about 15 minutes and it’s ready to be kneaded, rolled, and shaped into darling...
Free Christmas Playdough Mats There is just something so fun about homeschooling during the holiday season! With all the fun Christmas activities, games, and crafts, the classroom is always filled with delicious smells and festive projects. One of my favorite activities is to work in some hands-on learning with Christmas playdough mats. Today, I've got a free set of Christmas Cookie Play Dough Mats that you can use with scented playdough (gingerbread playdough...
Gingerbread House Game Learning to count is the most basic and necessary skill to have when your child is first learning math. With this free printable Christmas Game, students will learn how to count and identify numbers 11 to 20. This is a great way to expand on your preschooler's budding math skills. If you are looking for resources to help your student begin counting, check out our Free Number Printables. This...
Free Christmas Math Printables Once your preschool student has a good handle on their numbers, you might try working on simple addition facts. Addition is easily taught using objects or manipulatives to visually represent numbers. We've created a set of fun addition cards your student can use to visually represent the solution to a variety of addition problems to 15. Christmas break is coming up and this Christmas math pack is...
